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For his review of the Nagra VPA monoblock power amplifier, Jonathan Scull lived a life of danger, noting that readers should "Respect the VPA as the hot-running, high-voltage device it is and It Will Provide. Cold-nosed pets and curious little fingers have no business around these Swiss Guards of quality sound engineering."

Back in March of 1998, Thomas Norton reviewed the Kinergetics KBA-280 power amplifier, pointing out that "in 1990, Dick Olsher reviewed one of Kinergetics' early power amplifiers, the KBA-75. The KBA-280 is a modern update of that design, still specified for class-A output-stage operation but now sporting considerably more power."

Between 1985 and 1990, Sam Tellig & Robert Harley took several turns listening to the Naim NAIT integrated amplifier. Harley writes "the British do make excellent hi-fi equipment. Although not known for a cost-no-object approach to consumer audio gear, they consistently produce more musical components than their mass-market counterparts."

In January of 2001, Wes Phillips profiled composer, arranger, and performer Carla Bley in The Further Adventures of the Lone Arranger. WP comments, " Over the last three decades, she has constructed a body of work that has distinguished itself as much for its sly wit as for her austerely beautiful melodies."

Finally, the next installment in our "Recording of the Month" series for the online archives: June 1997: Guy Clark: Keepers. Robert Baird explains why in Clark's hands, "what was essentially a rural, cowboy-song tradition turned cosmic and worldly."